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Freedom of Information Day: The Genealogist’s Secret Weapon You’re Not Using Enough Freedom of Information Day: Every March 16th, we mark Freedom of Information Day — James Madison’s birthday —…

Discovering Incest in Family History: A Comprehensive Research Guide Discovering Incest in Family History: Nobody warns you about this part of genealogy. We talk about brick walls. We discuss the…

Esther Howland and the Case of the Missing Valentine Esther Howland: The year is 1850. The cobblestone streets of Worcester, Massachusetts, are slick with a winter mist, and the air…

How to Create Permalinks for Genealogical Source Citations How to Create Permalinks: As genealogists, we spend countless hours scouring the internet for that one elusive record that proves a family…

The Polio Epidemic: How It Shaped Your Family’s History April 12, 1955 changed everything. Here’s how to find the evidence in your family tree. It was a Tuesday. Church bells…

Police detectives are using an AI tool called Longeye to crack cases faster by analyzing mountains of digital evidence. Here’s why genealogists need a similar AI research assistant — and three ways it would transform family history research, from walling off bad data to accelerating the Genealogical Proof Standard.

Siblings Day! 4 Genealogy Strategies to Put Sibling Research to Work! Happy Siblings Day, fellow family historians! April 10th is the perfect excuse to call your brother, text your sister…